European cup rugby returns, with public appetite hopefully to follow | Robert Kitson


This season’s Champions Cup attendances will hopefully be up after a World Cup-hit 2015 while a high calibre of clubs are set for the Challenge Cup

The 2016-17 European rugby campaign is upon us. Good luck to all competing clubs and, in particular, travelling fans from the UK as they prepare to exchange their weakened sterling for euros. Half a week’s wages for a round of gaseous French lager? Had the referendum literature mentioned the possibility of teetotal rugby weekends there might have been a different outcome.

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